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Your Life Is Fully Mobile
We walk, talk and sleep with our phones. But are we more—or less—connected?
SXSW: Music and Tech, Together at Last
Austin’s streets are so crowded during the 48 hours when SxSW Interactive is ending and SxSW Music is beginning that it’s easy to imagine the budding love affair between music and tech began as a romcom collision.
SXSW Interactive Goes Retro: A Celebration of Analog at a Digital Fest
Techies show up to SXSW Interactive on the hunt for the next big gadget or app. But on the fest’s second day, digital was pushed aside during a celebration of the analog, the hand drawn and the physical
Inside the Kurzweil SXSW Keynote: On Infinite Mind Power, Robotic Overlords and Immortality
He is one of the world’s most renowned futurists, and onstage at South By Southwest, Ray Kurzweil stirred debate with a speech that outlined the incredible role artificial intelligence will play in the future, as it reshapes humanity
Fifty Cameras, a Fake Home and Virtual Reality: How Tide’s New Detergent Came Together
Laundry detergent is not my regular beat. But when Procter & Gamble invited me to check out one of its secret lairs, with a PR rep touting “advanced modeling and virtual reality” within, I couldn’t resist.
Yes, the maker of …
Why Don’t Video Game Companies Pay More Taxes?
With all the debate over the importance of tax rebates and incentives currently flooding the political world, it’s somewhat surprising to discover that one of the “most highly subsidized business in the United States,” according to a former Treasury Department worker turned tax professor, is also one of the few true success stories in …
Report: One-Third of Us Feel ‘Overwhelmed’ by Technology
If you were one of those people who greeted the launch of Google’s new Google+ social network with the words: “Oh no, not another one,” then you may be interested to know that you’re not the only one.
A study conducted by academics at the University of Cambridge and U.K.-based telco giant BT says that one in three people feel …
Pirates Now Using Blogs and GPS to Hunt Merchant Vessels
Piracy – in the ship hijacking, non-torrent sense – is on the rise, and real life pirates are getting increasingly sophisticated with their ship-hunting methods.
According to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre, there have been 243 pirate attacks worldwide in 2011 thus far. Somalia alone accounts for the vast majority of the reported …
A Custom Bikini? Sure, We Can Print That Out in 3D for You
Good morning, madam, how can I help you today?
“I’d like a bikini please.”
Certainly madam, I’ll just print one for you.
This, ladies and gentlemen (but mostly ladies), is the kind of bikini you can get now that you’re Living in the Future.
The N12 bikini (named after the plastic it’s printed with) consists of hundreds of …
Study: 53% of Youngsters Would Choose Technology over Sense of Smell
A new McCann study surveyed a group of 7,000 young individuals ages 16 to 30 across several countries to gauge their interests in different categories (friends, celebrity culture, etc. etc.) to see what actually motivates them to, you know, do things.
One of the more interesting tidbits–if you couldn’t tell from the extra grabby …
Bin Laden’s Low Tech Hideout May Have Been His Undoing
As news of Osama bin Laden’s death began rippling its way through various news pipes late last night, many were surprised to learn that the ever-elusive terrorist leader had been holed up not in a far-flung, desolate cave, but in a nice house in a well-to-do suburb outside of Islamabad.
I’d been asleep when the news broke last night …
